India, Feb. 6 -- Parth Pawar, 35, is likely to be elected to the Rajya Sabha by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), an ambition he's been nursing for at least two years. Parth will likely replace his mother and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar as a member of parliament (MP) from the upper house, according to party insiders.

Sunetra, who has replaced her deceased husband Ajit Pawar as deputy chief minister in the Mahayuti alliance government, is expected to give up her seat as Rajya Sabha MP and contest the Baramati by-election, a seat that fell vacant after Ajit Pawar's death in a plane crash on January 28.

According to constitutional provisions, Sunetra will have to become a member of one of the two houses of the state legislature...